19
Mar
2025
Some Initial Thoughts on the DC Circuit’s Rejection of AI Authorship
In a surprise to few people, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the District Court’s decision that the Copyright Office... Read More
30
Dec
2024
Were Works by Slaves Eligible for Copyright? A Case Study of Frederick Douglass
At the oral argument before the DC Circuit this September in Thaler v. Perlmutter, regarding whether a piece of graphical art conjured... Read More
29
Nov
2024
What Does John Cage Have to Do with AI Authorship?
As some of you know I’m working on a project on the history of copyright protection for computer-generated works, aka AI authorship.... Read More
19
Apr
2024
Registering Generative AI Works for Copyright Under the Rule of Doubt
The Copyright Office is currently involved with the question of how to handle applications to register works which are partially or fully... Read More
9
Oct
2023
The Musical Life of Edgar Allan Poe’s Bankruptcy Lawyer
In writing our article The Purloined Debtor: Edgar Allan Poe’s Bankruptcy in Law and Letters, 34 Yale J. L & Hum. 433... Read More
9
Apr
2023
The Landscape of Copyright Registration 1978-2012
On November 17, 2015, Robert Brauneis delivered the 12th Christopher A. Meyer Memorial Lecture on “The Landscape of American Cultural Production, 1978-2012:... Read More